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Term Papers on Arts and Movies
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Number of words: 1253 - Number of pages: 5.... friends that he can socialize with. Thus he became
a shy boy that pretty much kept to himself. Jeremy's characteristic that
distinguished him from the rest of society in which he lived in. Although he was
persecuted, beaten, and ridiculed at. He understood his characteristics and
understood why the boys hated him It was fear!
3. I respect Jeremy's caring. Like Christ himself, he wouldn't fight or use any
sort of violence to resolve problems. Jeremy would speak his words of wisdom, or
use his divine powers of mental stability and force to express a point. He wo .....
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Hamlet: Playing The Roles
Number of words: 1387 - Number of pages: 6.... (1.2.76). This is to say, "I am what I appear to be." Later in act I, Hamlet makes a clear statement about his state when he commits himself to revenge. In this statement the play makes an easy to follow shift. This shift consists of Hamlet giving up the role of a student and mourning son. Hamlet says, "I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there, And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain" (1.5.99-103). Hamlet is declaring .....
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Macbeth: The Three Witches
Number of words: 923 - Number of pages: 4.... or drama there is usually foreshadowing.
Foreshadow can be defined to be, "a sign of something to come: indicate or
suggest beforehand; prefigure; presage." (Compton's Interactive
Encyclopedia) Playwrights use this technique to give the audience a sense
of what is to come or what exactly is going to happen to a character.
Foreshadowing can be easily detected or it cannot be noticed at all until
the end of the play or story. In Shakespeare's Macbeth, Shakespeare uses
the prophecies of the witches and thoughts of Macbeth himself to foreshadow
within the play. .....
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Analytic Play Review Of The Taming Of The Shrew
Number of words: 1032 - Number of pages: 4.... of
its structure reveal that it is not merely a story of how men should 'put
women in their place'. The play is, in fact, a comedy about an assertive
woman coping with how she is expected to act in the society of the late
sixteenth century and of how one must obey the unwritten rules of a
society to be accepted in it. Although the play ends with her outwardly
conforming to the norms of society, this is in action only, not in mind.
Although she assumes the role of the obedient wife, inwardly she still
retains her assertiveness.
Most of the play's hum .....
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The Tragic Fate Of Oedipus
Number of words: 950 - Number of pages: 4.... sends his brother Creon to get whatever information he
can. Creon leaves the city and then comes back with some information. He
tells Oedipus that the gods command them to expel from the land of Thebes
an old defilement that it seems they shelter. The gods tell them to take
revenge upon whoever killed there past king. Oedipus, now the mighty king,
is determined to find out what happened. He says, "Then once more I must
bring what is dark to light. You shall see how I stand by you, as I should,
to avenge the city and the city's god.” (804).
The first thin .....
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Romeo And Juliet: The Capulet Family
Number of words: 636 - Number of pages: 3.... is not a
great deal of communication in the family. Throughout Act I, there were
several more examples of characters yielding to others and not standing up
for what they believe. For instance, when Lady Capulet brought up the idea
of Juliet marrying Paris, Juliet just went along with the concept , even
though that was possibly not what she wanted.
An even more significant instance of such a thing occurring is the
fact that Juliet feared to tell her parents that she had fallen in love
with Romeo, a Montague. She knew that if she informed them of how she .....
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The Crucible's Giles Corey: More Weight
Number of words: 456 - Number of pages: 2.... to be hanged.
The hysteria over witches continues to grow, and Corey's wife is
tried as a witch. When he realizes what he has caused to happen, Giles is
overcome by guilt and grief. He begs for his wife to be released.
Furthermore, when Giles offers evidence that Putnam falsely accused a man
as a witch in order to get his land, and the judge asks Corey to give the
name of the man who heard Putnam's conversation as evidence, Giles refuses
to give the name so to protect him, while he himself would have to hang, an
act of honor and courage: “I will not give y .....
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The Advantage Of Commercials
Number of words: 655 - Number of pages: 3.... commercials are
like direct mail because it comes directly to the consumer in his or her house.
It is like the radio because TV has to have sound to make it powerful impact.
It is also similar to print or newspapers because TV is able to show the product
alone, in a setting, or in use. Finally, unlike any other advertising vehicle,
TV can portray the object in motion while the other forms of media cannot.
TV is believable mostly because of the old of "seeing is believing" an
that is what TV does. Commercials have an unbelievable capacity to induce
belief beca .....
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